> So this may be interpreted poorly, but why was this murder such a big story in the news? There are so many reasons. In no particular order, here are some: *

> So this may be interpreted poorly, but why was this murder such a big story in the news? There are so many reasons. In no particular order, here are some: * There was so much detail available about what happened. By the standards of state-sanctioned assassination, it was very sloppy. * It happened in Turkey, so it's part of a trend of state actors believing they can assassinate with impunity in western countries. This makes people feel unsafe. * In the US, our leaders are siding with, or at least explicitly defending, the actors responsible for these assassinations a lot more often than is comfortable. * When you own a factory full of printing presses and one of your employees is murdered and dismembered by a government, you make a big story out of it. > Is this not in line with the average person’s perception of the Saudi government? The specifics of what happened to Jamal Khashoggi are genuinely new.